Mold for casting metals



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0. PAYEN. MOLD FOR CASTING METALS.

No. 415,328. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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NITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CLEMENT PAYEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE ELECTRICSTORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY.

MOLD FOR CASTING METALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,328, dated November19, 1889.

Application filed January 19, 1888. Serial No. 261,290. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- material into the mold when the two parts'2' 50 Be it known that I, CLEMENT PAYEN,a citiand t are clampedtogether in a manner to zen of the Republic of France, but now re-' bepresently fully described. The section or siding at the city ofPhiladelphia, in the part c" of this mold has beveled-off edgescorcounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylresponding with those ofthe part 111 the Vania, have invented certain new and useful bevelededge section 1, at suitable distances 55 Improvements in Molds forCasting Frames apart, are formed grooves i constituting air Around Metalor other Plates, &c., of which or vent holes when the two parts of themold the following is a specification. are clamped together.

My invention relates to certain improve- In the body of the part 1." ofthe mold, as

ments in metal molds for casting frames shown, for instance, in Fig. 3,are formed at 60 around plates or other structures. suitable distancesapart small openings 2' for The object of my invention is to provide athe introduction of small pins or pegs, which two-part mold of simpleconstruction with a are driven into the plate mounted in the mold neckand with means for clamping the parts to be framed in order to hold thesame in together, so that a metallic substance or maproper positiontherein while lead or other 65 terial in a liquid or molten state maybemetallic substance or material in a liquid or poured through said neckinto the mold to molten state is being poured into said mold I becomecast around a metal or other plate through the funnel-shaped neck ithereof to suitably mounted in the mold, for use subseform a narrowbeveled frame with or without quently as an element of a secondary orstora lug or terminal around the plate. 7 age battery. To the section 2'is rigidly secured a metal The nature of my invention will be more strip0, which projects slightly beyond the fully understood by reference tothe accomsides thereof, and onto the opposite section t panyingdrawings, forming part hereof, and is attached a metal strip d, providedwith trunin whichnions d and (Z at each extremity, which form Figure 1is a view in isometric perspective bearings for the shaft 6, and on thisshaft is of the two-part mold detached. Fig. 2 is an centrally mounted alever h. To each exend view thereof. Fig. 3 is a top or plan viewtremity of the shaft 6 is secured a locking- 0 of said mold, showingalso means for clamppawl g, and these pawls are caused to engage ing thetwo parts together; and Fig. 4 is a with the strip 0 by means of thelever h, and longitudinal central section through said disengagedtherefrom to permit of the remold, showing the particular constructionmoval of the framed plate from the mold. thereof and a plate with abeveled frame or The manner of casting a frame around the 3 5 bordercast around the same. plate is as follows: The plate is mounted inReferring to the drawings for a further dethe section and the section1." placed therescription of the invention, I is a mold made in, so thatthe two parts will occupy a posiof cast-iron or other suitable materialin two tion as shown, for instance, in Fig. 3. The parts or sections 11and e". The section 6 may two parts constituting the mold are then 0 bein the form of a rectangular parallelopipclamped together by theactuation of the leedon, if desired, with a rim or flange 'Faround verh, which causes the pawls g on the exthe respective sides thereof, asshown in Figs. tremities of the shaft e to become engaged I and 4.Rigidly secured to the bottom of with the metal strip 0, and therebyholding the part or section 1' is a beveled edge plate the two sectionsof the mold firmly together.

45 or instead of this plate being mounted there- Pins 0r pegs may thenbe inserted through in a beveled rim may be rigidly secured to theopenings 2' in the beveled section 11 and the interior surface of saidsection, as shown driven into the plate to be framed for holding inFig. 1. lVith the section 2' is formed a the same in the desiredposition in the twofunnel-shaped neck 1 for the introduction of partmold. The mold may then be raised into a vertical position, asillustrated in Fig. 4, and lead or other material in a molten or liquidstate poured into the mold through the funnel-shaped neck i The materialpasses around the plate, and in a few minutes in cooling becomes castsolidly thereto in the form of a narrow beveled frame or border. WVhenthe frame around the plate has become perfectly solid,it may then beremoved from the mold for further treatment or immediate use.

Having thus described theinature and ob jects of my invention, What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described mold, consisting of two parts, one of which isprovided with a funnel-shaped neck and the opposite one with grooves inthe edges and openings in the body thereof, a plate mounted in one ofsaid CLEMENT PAYEN.

\Vitnesses:

GHAs. HART, WM. R. WILEY.

